Goldsmith, Oliver, father of, i, 281; early life of, i, 281; home of, i, 283; London life of, i, 291; acquaintance of, with Samuel Richardson, i, 291; death of, i, 297; simplicity of, i, 298; Botticelli compared with, vi, 70; Burke compared with, vii, 161; _Deserted Village_, iii, 256; on Boswell, viii, 26; on Dr. Johnson, vii, 167; on Richard Brinsley Sheridan, xii, 171; quoted, v, 147; referred to, i, 259, 306; ii, 232; iii, 12; v, 294; xii, 179; Reynolds and, iv, 305, 306. Golgotha, ii, 53, 84. Gomez, carrying the message to, v, 195. Gondoliers, superstitions of, iv, 148; Venetian, vi, 257. Good-cheer, v, 174. _Good-Natured Man, The_, Goldsmith, i, 272, 295. Gosse, Edmund, on biography, vii, 346; on Stevenson, xiii, 42. Government loans, xi, 163. Graham, Stevens, Corot's letter to, vi, 205. Grammar, function of, viii, 328. Grasmere, i, 88, 211. Grattan, John, Quaker preacher, ix, 226. Gravitation, the law of, xii, 31. Gravity, spiritual, v, 241. Gray, Dr. Asa, xii, 231; Louis Agassiz and, xii, 408; Charles Darwin to, xii, 198, 232. Gray, Thomas, xiv, 51; _Elegy_, iv, 302; v, 126. Great Awakening, the, ix, 41. Greatness, defined, ix, 369; the germ of, vi, 175. Greece, the decline of, vii, 37; education of women in, xii, 173; England compared with, vii, 35; gods of ancient, iv, 18; vii, 17; golden age of, x, 71; Rome and Judea compared with, x, 36; in the time of Pericles, vii, 27. Greed, xii, 89. Greek art, rise of, vii, 12. Greek culture, influence of, vi, 14. _Greek Heroes_, Kingsley, i, 248. Greek-letter societies, x, 77. Greeley, Horace, vii, 409; xiii, 183; on farming, xi, 387; at Girard College, xi, 123; influence of, vi, 155; in prison, vi, 170; on Sam Staples, viii, 403; quoted, i, 200. Green Mountain Boys, the, xi, 308. Greenough, Horatio, sculptor, iii, 5. Gretna Green, i, 67; ii, 38. Grief, expression of, xiii, 268. Grimm, Baron, on Rousseau, ix, 386. Grind, the college, v, 151; viii, 183. Gross, Samuel Eberly, vi, 275. Grub Street, referred to, i, 292; the wrangles of, viii, 249. Guam, isle of, i, p xxv. Guernsey, island of, i, 195. Guiccioli, Countess, and Lord Byron, v, 211, 230. Guilds, i, p xviii. _Gulliver's Travels_, referred to, i, 160; vi, 329. Guyon, Madame, appearance of, ii, 43; autobiography of, xiii, 312, 315, 329, 351; marriage of, ii, 45; meeting of Fenelon with, ii, 50; philosophy of, ii, 51; home of, ii, 58; portrait of, ii, 64. Gynecocracy, Spartan, vii, 32. _Gypsy Queen_, Rembrandt, iv, 73. Haeckel, Ernst, characteristics of, xii, 246; Charles Darwin and, xii, 252; Goethe and, xii, 255; Huxley compared with, xii, 248; on monogamy, x, 305; _The Natural History of Creation_, xii, 249; Major Pond and, xii, 242; _The Riddle of the Universe_, xii, 249; Herbert Spencer compared with, xii, 257; at the World's Freethought Convention, ix, 123. Hagiology, x, 362.